Hmm, I would say they remain on such state due a missing class (or any
other problem while loading B in memory)

For instance, plugin A imports class B which imports class C. If C is not
available A will remain in the Starting state for ever.
 El 12/5/2015 11:49, "Lars Vogel" <lars.vo...@vogella.com> escribió:

> Thanks Alex and Tom for the clarification.
>
> Best regards, Lars
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Thomas Watson <tjwat...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Alex is correct.  Things in the STARTING state are waiting to be lazily
>> activated on first class define.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> -----equinox-dev-boun...@eclipse.org wrote: -----
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>> Date: 05/07/2015 04:40PM
>> Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] Bundles remaining in life cyle "Starting".
>>
>>
>> I think they’re placed into that state if they are lazily started, i.e.
>> they have a BundleActivationPolicy of ‘lazy’.
>>
>> http://www.osgi.org/Design/LazyStart
>> http://wiki.osgi.org/wiki/Bundle-ActivationPolicy
>>
>> I think it goes from ‘starting’ to ‘started’ when classes have been
>> loaded from the bundle.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On 7 May 2015, at 22:31, Lars Vogel <lars.vo...@vogella.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I frequently see lots of bundles remaining in the life cyle status
>> "Starting". Is this expected? I would assume that "Starting" is a temporary
>> status and that once a bundle has finished starting, it becomes "Active".
>>
>> Best regards, Lars
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